A West Virginia man who police said passed gas and fanned it toward a patrolman has been charged with battery on a police officer.
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"The gas was very odorous and created contact of an insulting or provoking nature with Patrolman Parsons," the com

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz must resign following jokes he made about the listeriosis outbreak, the opposition said Wednesday night, including a quip that he hoped one PEI listeriosis-related death was that of an opposition MP.

Eleven Conservative officials, including several senior campaign strategists, failed to make their scheduled appearances on Wednesday before the parliamentary committee probing the party's financing of the last federal election.

The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission's announcement last week that the national do-not-call registry (DNC) will be operational by Sept. 30 generated a collective sigh of relief from Canadians tired of unwanted telemarketing call

An apology from Prime Minister Stephen Harper Sunday for the 1914 Komagata Maru incident in which hundreds of Indians seeking a better life in Canada were turned away has failed to win over Sikh community members.

The Conservative Party of Canada, starting with its leader the prime minister, should find the decency to knock off their scurrilous assault on the integrity of Elections Canada and its commissioner, Marc Mayrand.

Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand plans to tell MPs on Tuesday why he rejected $1.3 million in campaign advertising expenses from Conservative candidates in 2006, and then asked the federal election commissioner for an investigation.

Opposition MPs fear the [Stephen] Harper government is preparing to cut off parliamentary business for the summer rather than endure an inquiry into allegations of election spending fraud by the Conservative party.

Vic Toews, a Manitoba Conservative MP and the president of the Treasury Board, yelled "she's a disgrace" during question period as a Liberal MP, Martha Hall Findlay, was calling on the government to acknowledge Ms.

The government is ready to introduce controversial new copyright legislation that experts believe will introduce harsh new restrictions on downloading, copying songs to CDs and music players, unlocking cellphones and time-shifting of television shows.

A former premier famously stated of his longevity and electoral success that "bland works." While Bill Davis may officially be John Tory's mentor, it seems it is Dalton McGuinty who has taken this advice to heart.

A House of Commons committee opens hearings Tuesday into whether there was a breach of national security in the Maxime Bernier affair, but MPs won't be hearing from the prime minister or the disgraced former foreign minister.

United States immigration officials who detained Canadian engineer Maher Arar in 2002 concluded his deportation to Syria would "more likely than not result in his torture," but removed him anyway -- despite receiving "ambiguous" assurances of his safety,

Angry General Motors employees gathered outside the company's Canadian head office early Wednesday morning, saying they wouldn't leave until the company agrees to keep its truck assembly plant in Oshawa, Ont. open.

Dr. Sheela Basrur, who became a trusted source of information through the SARS crisis in Toronto in 2003 as the medical officer of health for the City of Toronto, has died, according to a spokesperson for the family. She was 51.

The premiers of Ontario and Quebec say the relationship between the two provinces is the cornerstone of Confederation, and to prove it they're holding the first ever joint cabinet meeting between the two provinces on Monday to announce a carbon cap-and-tr

The federal New Democrats will introduce a private member's bill on Wednesday that would entrench the principle of "net neutrality" and enact rules to keep the internet free from interference by service providers, an NDP MP told a rally Tuesday in Ottawa.